You aren’t being rude! Look, not every show is going to work for everyone and that’s totally fine. WGD is a show I’d have loved to get my editing hands on for the reasons you mention, even if I love it. I think perhaps part of it might be that it’s simply more interesting to show the boxing arc rather than the getting a medical scholarship arc and so esp the second half of the show shifted a lot to Yak.

The writing and the show I think expects you to make your own connections about Dee based on what we’re shown rather than having a scene where he talks about it—I think P’Golf might just like that kind of storytelling bc it was something I felt (negatively) when watching The Eclipse. It’s definitely not how most Thai shows are written or directed—they love to make things very explicit, which I think is why they use flashbacks so much! (and now that I think about it, WGD doesn’t really do that, except if they’re showing something from a different POV.)

That kind of mismatch in storytelling technique within the same piece of media can be really off putting bc it feels like they aren’t getting the same narrative weight or value. In this case, I feel like it was meant to be representative of they deal with their problems. Externalizing Yak’s problems that way is so in line with how his family deal with stuff head on when they finally get to it, and Yak in general likes to deal with things very directly. We kept joking during the finale about how he has to punch death in the face but genuinely for real he’s someone who has to fight or confront his problem head-on to solve it.

Dee isn’t like that—he is kind of confrontational in the immediate aftermath of Ter’s rejection, but Ter is right when he calls Dee on acting out of character even if he sucks lmao. Dee’s very buttoned down emotionally, and I do agree that the reason for that could have come earlier! We could have been given more during the scene when he brings Yak with him to the graveyard, for example. One thing we do get is his “make every day special” philosophy which tracks towards his putting on a good face for everything as much as possible.

For me, Dee’s emotional journey was a lot about observing his behavior rather than anything he said. I felt like we were given enough clues to understand what his hangups were early on, and while his deep backstory information did come late, to me that told me it was something he kept buried really deep and so it needed the time to get drawn out of him, and up until that point I could at least surmise from what he said and did that he had abandonment issues if not the root cause.

As for Ter and Japan—I think we read that whole situation differently! To me, Dee seems supremely uncomfortable and unhappy with how that situation plays out. He’s trying very hard to be professional despite everything Ter is doing because the scholarship is important to him, and he wants to do well on the presentation they have. I think also that even if he is unhappy with Ter on a personal level, he still deeply respects Ter as a doctor, which adds a complicating layer on top of the fact that they were friends who worked closely together for eight years, which isn’t nothing. His willingness to just drop all that to fly back to Thailand to comfort Yak was to me the big sign that Ter was cooked lmao.

All that being said, you also simply might not like how Dee handles emotional conflict or him in general, and that’s also fine! Sometimes a character hits enough notes of things you dislike that you can’t gel with a show, and there’s nothing wrong with that. I totally get finding Dee frustrating as a character even if I don’t feel the same.